Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: North of England Commissioning Support Unit
Teesdale House, Thornaby
TS17 6BL Stockton-on-Tees
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1642746911
Internet address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/necs

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Other: NHS

I.3)Main activity

Health

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Women’s Prisons Healthcare Services for Yorkshire and Humber.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: HMP New Hall and HMP Askham Grange.

NUTS code UKE

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

NHS England — North (Yorkshire and the Humber) Health and Justice commissioning team is seeking to procure Healthcare Provision for Women in Prisons across Yorkshire and Humber.
The scope of the service provision model comprises the populations of the 2 female establishments which are currently HMP & YOI New Hall and HMP Askham Grange.
The 2 prisons are structured as a ‘Cluster’ with the Contract to be tendered as 1 Lot. There is potentially a possibility that there will be changes to the female prisons estate in the future, and we would work with the healthcare providers to manage any changes.
The new service model tendered is designed to deliver:
— A gender-specific focus on delivering healthcare for women in custody;
— A renewed and strengthened focus on improving mental health outcomes and tackling substance misuse issues for women in prison that reflects latest national policy and NICE clinical guidance;
— An integrated and coherent healthcare delivery model across the cluster comprising the 2 establishments that is aligned to the local healthcare system and local offender management pathway;
— The 3 key strategic commissioning goals: to reduce health inequalities; to ensure services are integrated; and to reduce health risk factors;
— Improved provider capability and capacity, including effective contracting models with robust subcontracting and supply chain arrangements to deliver improved service quality and performance;
— Greater value for money from whole system capability and capacity, including efficient operations underpinned by strengthened contract management arrangements;
— Cost improvement from testing the market through a competitive tender to secure new provision through contract award and subsequent innovative contracting model (prime contractor model).
Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the contracting authority must consider:
— How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area.
— How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing the improvement.

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

III.2.3)Technical capacity

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

NHSE44

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

22.2.2016 – 12:00

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 22.2.2016 – 12:00

Place:

John Snow House.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

VI.3)Additional information

Please note this is a voluntary notice as healthcare services are currently Part B regime in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as Amended), and therefore compliance to the full regulations is not mandatory. The new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are now in force however there is a delay in application of the Light Touch Regime (LTR) to the commissioning of health services for the purposes of the NHS. Regulation 120 provides that the LTR will only apply to the procurement (‘Commissioning’) of health services for the purposes of the NHS from 18.4.2016. The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed to commission Healthcare Provision for Adults and Young People in Prisons and Other Prescribed Places of Detention (PPD) in West Yorkshire and York thus ensuring a fair, open and transparent process in accordance with NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013.
A Bidder event for further clarification and explanation of the procurement process has been arranged for 10:00-12:00, 22.1.2016. The event will be held at the following venue: HMP Askham Grange, Askham Richard, York, North Yorkshire, YO23 3FT.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) and supporting documents are available for all services to download through In-Tend who are the managed service provider for the NECS e-tendering portal.
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, including your submission, will be conducted via the portal:https://In-tendhost.co.uk/necs hosted by In-tend The managed service provider for the NECS e-tendering system. It is free to register on the portal, and it can be accessed at any time of day. Should potential providers have any queries, or if potential providers are having problems registering on the portal, they should contact the In-Tend help desk by calling 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 17:00) or email support@in-tend.co.ukThe closing date for submission of Tenders is 12:00, 22.2.2016.
(MT Ref:169137).

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained